In corduroy country, with its endless ripple of ridges and coulees, the terrain calls the shots. Climb high, where you have plenty of visibility, and the wind can send your scent into the nose of an incoming coyote. If you stay low, where wind is more consistent, you lose the advantage of sight.
The best broken-country coyote hunters adjust to a mix of landscapes and employ a handful of setups to specific terrain features and weather conditions. That versatility is key, because anywhere you find coyotes in the West—that is to say, everywhere—they thrive in some variation of broken country, whether river breaks, timbered foothills, arid bench-and-canyon land or even farm country that’s broken up by fences and homesteads. If you have only one go-to set, then you’re going to miss out on a lot of callable coyotes this month.
Coyotes are particularly susceptible to calling in
